this is for palestine, gaza, this is for the child that is searching, this is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are going stones at tanks? and we'll never really know how many people are dead, they drop bombs on innocent girls while they sleep in their bed. israel is a terror state, the terrorists that testify my television, how many more resolutions have to be violated, how many more children have to be annihilated, this is not a war, it is systematic genocide, but whatever they try, palestine will never die. palestine,

'hello, i'm chris williamson and you're watching palestine declassified, where we exposed the israeli regime's global war of against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in today's show we'll be focusing on the legacy of casim sallemani, five years on from his assassination by the united states. president donald trump, who authorized the killing, will assume office again on january the 20th. in our first report, the tief chakra looks back on solemani's life.' the five years since the assassination of haj qasim sulaimani, commander of iran's goods force have proven just how important he was. sulaimani was one of the key figures in the creation of the axis of resistance, a transnational alliance against zionism and us imperialism. his effectiveness led him to be known as the shadow commander amongst his enemies. yossey cohen, former director of israel's foreign intelligence agency, mossad, even

said that sulaymani had personally tightened a noose around israel's neck, but who was sulaimani and why was he considered a prime target for israel and the united states? sulaimani had humble beginnings, leaving school at the age of 13, and working in construction to help pay off his father's debts. he spent part of his late teenage years attending religious gatherings and listening to revolutionary sermons. in 1979, when he was in his early 20s, he joined the islamic revolutionary guards. sulaimani advanced rapidly through the ranks and during the iran-iraq war, he helped to fight of saddam hussein's invasion, gaining a reputation for bravery. he continued to ascend the ranks after the war, becoming an irgc commander in kurman province, fighting against drug trafficking. by 1998, he had become the commander of the irgc's elite hoods force in that role, which he occupied until his assassination on

on the 3rd of january 2020, sulaimani developed personal ties with resistance forces across west asia. in the july war against israel in 2006, sulaimani was stationed in lebanon and worked with hisballah to help remove the zionist invaders. it is no surprise that a former cia officer described sulaimani as the single most powerful operative in west asia. sulaimani also worked to fortify relations with the palestinian resistance groups hamas. and palestinian islamic jihad, and he was a key player in the creation of an extensive tunnel network used to smuggle weapons me and supplies into the besieged strip. an official statement from hamas said that sulaimani played a major and critical role in supporting palestinian resistance at all levels. moreover, the head of palestinian islamic jihad, ziyadin nahala stated that the u.s. decision to kill sulaimani was an indication of the major...

role he played in strengthening the resistance axes and the struggle for palestine. sulaimani was also one of the major figures in the war against isis, working in both iraq and syria to coordinate decisive military offensives against the sectarian takhfiri group. the loss of qasim sulaymani and his unique ability to coordinate different resistance forces is now more keenly felt than ever, although his legacy continues to serve as a thorn in the side of the zionist aggressors. joining me in the studio as usual is our residence expert david miller who's widely regarded as the uk's preeminent scholarly critic of israel. dave is a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs at istanbul's am university and he's a co-director of the lobbying watch dog spinwatch. our guest contributor today is a professor of english literature and orientalism at the university of tehran and he's an outstanding political analyst professor said mohamed morandi.

welcome to the show. david, i mean, we just heard in in the report there about casim salimani's role in defeating isis, didn't we? i mean, just elaborate a bit on that, will you for us? well, i mean, given... what's happened in recent weeks with the uh collapse of the government of bashar al-assad, it's being said that iran was playing a role in syria and indeed in other places which was just about self-interest, people talk about iranian colonialism, but look, what what simon did was he galvanized and in fact helped to create the axis of resistance uh in in yemen, yes of course, but also in iraq, in lebanon and in syria and... to and allied that with the palestinian resistance and it's absolutely clear that that was an attempt to and was the main reason why the palestine resistance had the success that it has had, so the idea that somehow that this was a problematic thing or wasn't significant is completely wrong

and of course it was also significant player in the defeat of isis, the takfiri terrorist sectarian group and if it wasn't for solomani probably isis wouldn't have been. his his role there was outstanding right indeed, well professor morondi, i mean our report there gave a small insight into solomonni's life story, but but what do you think motivated him and and just say a word or two will you about solomon's world view? he was a very intelligent person, he came from a poor part of the country before the revolution. rural areas were very backward, he had to do manual labor, but he was extremely right, and if anyone who spoke, speaks persian

would listen to speeches, they would know how how well educated he is, and how how eloquent he is in speak? and he was a very brilliant commander, but he was very ideological, excuse me, but he was very ideological, ideologically bound to resistance from the very beginning, and you can see that in his speeches, but also in his writings and the defense of iran of course, against saddam hussein's aggression was key to his evolution as a... military commander, yeah, and after the war he was given a new job to build the pots forces and because of his very heartfelt

relationship to the palestinian people, he spent the rest of his life trying to strengthen the palestinian cause and creating what is called the access. resistance, the united states, of course, they in many ways helped create the axis of resistance by foolish policies, by destructive policies, by supporting isis, for example, the united states helped irakis recognized the true nature of american foreign policy and the threat that isis was to their to their country. into their existence, yes indeed, and of course the united states approach hasn't changed at all, has it in the intervening years, but professor mirandi, i mean, what was somani's relationship with hisballah, because he was highly respected in lebanon and even supported the hisb in the 2006

july war against israel, didn't he? yes, he was actually in lebanon and he stayed in lebanon throughout the war. "it was very dangerous for him because the israelis were bombing civilian targets as they always do destroying southern bayrut and back then ezbullah did not have the sort of underground tunnel mechanisms or underground tunnel networks that they have today, so he put his life at great risk, but he was there to coordinate support for hizbullah, and of course afterwards he was key to..." helping them develop the tunnel networks that were used in the recent war. the reason why the israelis faid in the south to make any progress was because of the very sophisticated tunnel networks that exist across southern and central lebanon.

the only successes were in beirot through assassinations and of course the bombing of ordinary people and the bombing of refugees and cities across the country, but south where the battles were taking place and the israelis failed to make progress, it was basically because of the dedication of the soldiers and the commanders, but also of the sophisticated defense network that was established, absolutely, a very key key figure, but david, briefly, um, solomon also played a key role in syria, didn't he, and they even personally briefed the russian president, didn't he, vladimir putin about how to interven that, well yes, i mean he's credited with bringing putin in, and that that's tremendous historical moment that happened there, but of course there's also a story, isn't there uh, which said hasan nasara told about how... uh he had solmani come to him and say these corner rockets that we've had from the russians uh you know can we send them to

gaza? and that's all i said to him we we can't do that until we have asked uh president assad because he gave them to us and he gotten from the russians so uh we agreed that the next person to see assad would ask him and as it happened i said was the person to see assad and assad said of course they must go to the brothers in gaza so that really shows the the close links between the elements and the access. resistance and the fact that assad was a very significant supporter of the axis of resistance up until the end indeed and of course role should not be underestimated either of course, but our next report now outlines why casim solemani was actually targeted by the united states. above all else, it was rasim sulaymani's support for the palestinian resistance that made him a prime target for the zionist regime. while us president donald trump ordered the fatal drone strike that kill suleimani as he left baghdad airport, the operation had been supported by

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. in fact, it was israeli intelligence that confirmed sulaimani's location, which was shared with us intelligence, but according to trump, netanyahu backed out of the murder plot at the last minute, and the night before it happened, i got a call that israel. will not be participating in this attack, nobody's heard this story before. i'll never forget that bb netanyahu let us down, that was a very terrible thing. i will say that. despite backing out at the last minute, netanyahu praised trump for carrying out the assassination. but why was rasim suleimani such a threat to the zionist regime? a statement by sad hasan nasrulah, the late. secretary general of hisbollah highlighted suleimani's commitment to the palestinian resistance. in december 2020,

nasra recounted a time when suleymani had requested that russian made cornet missiles which belong to hisbollah in south lebanon be transferred to gaza instead. but sulaymani wasn't just responsible for sending cornet missiles to gaza. with suleimani's coordination, iran also sent other. weapons and ammunition to gaza by using its diplomatic relations with sudan, which produced many of the weapons locally. support for palestine was recognized by leaders of the palestinian resistance. the late leader of hamas said in 2017 told us clearly, we place all our capabilities at your disposal in the battle for the defense of jerusalem. he did not ask, set conditions. or encourages to employ any specific type of resistance. let tell you something. i sat with the man when i visited tehran in

2012. i saw a man who loves palestine, loves jerusalem, and loves anything that could bolster the steadfastness of our people. soleimani's effectiveness at providing material support for the palestinian resistance is undeniable, and it was one of the greatest reasons that the us savagely murdered him on the third. january 2020, but soleimani's martur them has only immortalized his legacy and his unwavering commitment to palestine will always be remembered. well, professor, merandi, solomon's role in supporting all palestinian resistance factions surely negates the notion being pedaled in certain quarters, doesn't it, that iran has been simply persuming its own narrow interests in palestine. "i think by now most people should recognize that iran has

made enormous sacrifices for the palestinian cause. the reason why iran is so heavily sanctioned is because of palestine. yes, the maximum pressure of sanctions imposed on iran, the sanctions that really began soon after the revolution, all of these are because of palestine. united states or the europeans may use some excuse about. the nuclear program or terrorism or human rights, but in reality it's all been about palestine, and at the same time iran has given significant funding and... support to the palestinian movements, whether in gaza, the west bank, whether in lebanon or in syria or in jordan as well, so it has come to, it has been a great cost to iran, but this is a a principle that the palestinian people should cannot be treated as subhuman animals in their own land, by a racist

and ethno supremacist regime, and so... based upon this principle, the iranians have set a foreign policy that has always been to help enable the palestinian people and the people of the region surrounding palestine, yes indeed, i mean sa standard really that the world ought to follow professor mirandi, but david, i mean what do you make of this contention then that you iran is is a sectarian player in in palestine, i mean the light and experience suggests that such assertion is for the bird. "well, it's completely absurd, but this is a view which is being pedaled, it's been pedaled in in syria by by the supporters the coup, the cia back coup, but you know it's quite clear that that iran being largely shia has, yes it supported shia militia, but it's also of course supported every single palestinian faction, who are overwhelmingly sunny, it's

supported the palestinian islamic jahad who are sunny, it supported hamas, and indeed it's even supported secularuh. leftists groups, marxists groups, if you like, the democratic front for liberation of palestine, popular front for liberation of palestine, also supported uh indiscriminantly by by iran, because iran believes in the palestinian cause, if it was sectarian, it would only supply weapons to shia groups, of course on the other side that's not the case, on the other side there is very very great secretarianism amongst the al-qaeda, protis, the nuz front, hayat tarir sham, all these uh isis in suits. factions which are of course tacferian sectarian and deeply deeply anti-sia and that of course is the problem which we have faced in syria and a problem which iran has set his face against and and actually tried to uh to stop and serving the interests of the of the the greater israel project and and and the us empire that's correct yeah yeah indeed well professor morandi i mean we know that donald trump originally had no

idea who casim salmani even was and yet and yet he killed him. israel's behalf, i mean that doesn't seem to board well does it for his forth coming second term, particularly as he's appointed a large number of strid and ziness to key positions in his new administration. yes, his ignorance, i think is what led him to be fooled by netanyahu and people in his own administration like john bolton and pompeo. netanyahu as you're... report points out encouraged him to carry out the assassination, him and abu mahdialdis, the iraqi was leading the resistance in iraq against isis and their their and a group of six young men who were with them, he he pushed for this, he said he will be a part of it, but netanyahu pulled out at the last moment,

and basically he wanted trump to take all the blame for it, which i think shows the nature of... himself and then of course bolton and pompeo are deep state actors in the united states linked to these very dangerous and powerful people, so trump out of his ignorance and foolishness, he ordered the murder, but a very interesting thing that i think your viewers reviewers should know is that the reason why general sulaimani was in iraq and he was at the iraq international airport move going into baghdad was because he was supposed to meet the iraqi prime minister, yeah, and the the the then prime minister said later after he was martered that general sulaimani was coming to see me at 8 in the morning to discuss a letter from saudi arabia to diffuse the tensions

between iran and saudi arabia and to deescalate and we were going to sit together to find a way towards uh rapprochement, yes, so what the united states and the israelis basically did was they murdered him in order in my opinion to prevent that meeting from taking place, to prevent iran and saudi arabia moving closer to one another, because it is in the interest of the united states and the empire to divide and rule, especially as western fortunes declined, as they they their power, their relative power decreased. they need divide and rule as a policy more than ever before, and the then prime minister himself told me that i was planning to meet him. after he was murdered, sure, yeah, i mean, the evidence is is absolutely overwhelming, professor morandi, but david, i mean, we know that donald trump's heavily influenced by

the zionist lobby, i mean, how do you think that's likely to affect the pro-palestine resistance in in west asia during his second term? well, he is very heavily affected by the lobby, but he also appears to say things which seem to be um completely at all and variance with reality, so about syria, for example, he said, oh yes, this is something for the syrians to sort out, nothing to do with us and of course, as everybody knows, the cia was heavily involved through turkey as well as with the israelis and indeed through the kurds in northeast syria where they occupy the oil rich fields of syria, so the the idea that actually america was isolationist, was taking a back seat, it's completely... yeah, bogus and of course that's the difficulty is that whether he knows or not that the cia was was deeply involved, probably he does, you know, he he he's he's perfectly content to come out with all this stuff, which is which is simply right, well, i

mean, it's obviously not in office yet is he, so let's see how he reacts in his second term actually does begin on january the 20th, professor morandi though, finally and briefly because we're nearly out of time, what was the reaction like in west asia to solmani's martydom, i mean that viewpoints often missing in the west. 'well western media was saying how despised he was and hated by iraqis and iranians immediately after he was martered and then we had the funerals in it began in baghdad where you had massive crowds that carried his body all the way to the holy cities of najaf and karbala where there were huge crowds there then he was moved to iran and his body was moved from city to city and you had millions of people on the streets and it the end he was it was the uh the the prayers in tehran that were held where millions of people came to the streets to to to to to pray

for him and western media again as usual they had they they they had to at least acknowledge some of this reality yeah not all of it uh but it was quear clear that iraqis considered him to be a hero, iranians considered him to be a hero and and syrians and lebanese consider him and palestinians considered to be a hero and we are seeing how al-qaida today is being promoted by the west, but i think time will tell their true role for the syrian people absolutely, absolutely certainly kasim salimani was the embodyment really of of of a national hero and and and remain so today, but i'm afraid that's all we've got time for today, so thanks for watching and thank you to our guest professor mirandi and of course our residence expert professor david miller. remember you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates and

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sulaimani rescued christians and other minorities in iraq and syria from attacks and slaughter by daesh terrorists. how can the valiant action by mata sulaimani serve an example of coexistence between christians and muslims in africa? this is africa today, mubarak kenya, stay with us. the struggle for national liberation is the only path that we latin americans have to take and pursue. we have no other path.

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